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Comment by toxik

I love how the example is super confusing.

You sleep 3.33… metric hours.

You fall asleep 9:50 metric time.

You'd think we can just interchange the . and : so you should wake up 12:83…, or 2:83… the next day.

But no, it's apparently 2:75 metric time. Why?

Also nice how they IMMEDIATELY ran into a continuing fraction 1/3, which is exactly the point of the 60-minute hour, 24-hour day, or 360-degree circle: lots of factors.

parent toxik 3 years ago

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